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Historical Event on 5/2/1985
Banarsidas Chaturvedi, famous writer and journalist, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/27/1977 | N. Sanjeeva Reddy elected Speaker of the Lok Sabha. |
| 3/27/1977 | Bahadur Tair, under their leader Mongol of Hulagu Khan, captured Lahore. |
| 1/24/1957 | Kagaz Ke Phool, the first Indian black and white cinemascope film, was made. |
| 7/14/1856 | Gopal Ganesh Agarkar, great social worker, was born. |
| 1/21/1943 | Hemu Kalani, revolutionary freedom fighter and social reformer, was hanged by British police. |
| 1/14/1760 | Eyree Coote, British Army Captain, captured and surrendered Pondicherry, capitulated French General Lally. |
| 3/19/2000 | Bill Clinton, US President, arrives to a warm welcome in India. This was the first presidential visit of a US head in two decades. |
| 9/7/1955 | All India Council of Secondary Education set up by the Government. |
| 2/22/1990 | 1st day India vs New Zealand cricket at Auckland. NZ 5-78 at lunch, 9-387 stumps. |
| 3/15/1969 | Indian Navy's first Helicopter Squadron was commissioned in Goa. |
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